Megalosaro
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There are variations of the ride. There are segments of the ride, with different variations that are randomly assembled. Half of the variations are pt, the other half is ot.
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Star Wars Land Coming to Disney Parks
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There are variations of the ride. There are segments of the ride, with different variations that are randomly assembled. Half of the variations are pt, the other half is ot.
the_sun_king
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Nope, it sounds just like The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at the Universal parks - Disney's biggest competitor in terms of extravagant theming (many ppl feel Universal one-upped the Mouse in that regard when it came to immersion and detail).
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
Part of me just died.
Jailer of Hope
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Well, since 2011 (in Disneyland) and it's not just prequel stuff.
Around the world as opposed to just California. They showed footage from the Great Wall and Monument Valley, among other places.
Future PhaZe
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I won't be taking nearly enough photos brehs
Yeah, again; that's like the greatest bargain of all time.
Between the box office for The Force Awakens and all the SW merchandising from the buyout to the date of the Blu-Ray/DVD release, I'd expect it just about will have paid for itself by then. Then they'll be printing money with annual movies and merchandising from now on until god knows when. It was certainly a large investment, but absolutely easily worth it.
Jack Remington
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Disney's market cap went up $2 billion after the new Star Wars trailer in the spring: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/11543931/Star-Wars-trailer-The-Force-Awakens-adds-1bn-to-Disney.html
They've already made back half the acquisition price just in terms of shareholder value. I know it's not actual cash flows, but if you're a shareholder it's basically the same thing.
They've already made back half the acquisition price just in terms of shareholder value. I know it's not actual cash flows, but if you're a shareholder it's basically the same thing.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
Half in cash and half in shares of Disney stock.
The stock price has doubled since acquisition.
matt360
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Doesn't Tokyo have even less land to use than Disneyland CA? I know the entire resort is built on reclaimed land, and the two parks are already completely encircled by the resort hotels and monorail tracks.
Pop-O-Matic
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If it makes you feel any better, the queue has Jar Jar frozen in carbonite...
A Link to the Past
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Nintendo Land and this.
Nintendo Land huh? How awesome would it be if Monita was a fixture at the theme park
hodayathink
Member
I still can't believe they have an entire section dedicated to A Bug's Life. That area needs to be rethemed with a quickness.
Future PhaZe
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Went to Universal Studios Osaka on a weekday in late May and it was ridiculous. The line for the main Harry Potter ride was 4.5 hours long, and everything was at least a 1 hour wait. Even the snack cart lines were 30 people deep at all times.
I showed up 30 minutes before the park opened, but there was a long line already.
Dreams-Visions
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Anyone on GAF still think this Star Wars movie won't beat Age of Ultron or Fast 7's BO numbers?
terribletwo
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The cantina better be on the california adventure side. What's the point if I can't get star wars themed cocktails?
Future PhaZe
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i will be seeing it maybe 5 times lol
Dreams-Visions
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BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Too many people there to have a reasonable park experience...
And people wonder why the Ghibli museum has limited tickets booked weeks and months in advance....
A Link to the Past
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Did someone really suggest that Star Wars won't beat The Fast and the Furious or Age of Ultron? C'mon! The Phantom Menace earned more than $1 billion worldwide, and it'll be 15 years about following its release that The Force Awakens releases. Not only are people going into it with that same "it's been so long since Star Wars!" feel - even the skeptics are going - the international market is leaps and bounds more powerful than it ever has been. I legitimately expect this movie to hold records.
Dreams-Visions
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Yessir they did. If you search I'm sure you'll find the thread. Please believe I'll be bumping it as soon as the first weekend numbers are in.
A Link to the Past
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Colin is directing Episode IX because he wants to be involved in two movies that get the record for best opening weekend
matt360
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They actually sell extra passes for Harry Potter in addition to the park pass to guarantee you'll get to do the Harry Potter attractions.
I'll be going to USJ in October for Halloween Horror Nights, and paid 7000 yen extra just to get into five of the haunted houses. They never did that kind of stuff in Florida when I lived there. No idea now, though. But Osaka's Halloween Horror Nights is a far cry from what Florida's is.
Alex_Mexico
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Has Universal announced anything yet? Last I saw was the "hey we're partnering with Nintendo!" And that was it.
Alex_Mexico
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For what it's worth I went to Orlando on the first week of November of last year and 10 to 30min lines were the norm in both Disney World and Universal, I'm not joking. Probably the longest line I did was like 50 minutes and that was for the recently opened Eacape from Gringots (the new Harry Potter attraction in Universal Studios that just opened that very summer a few months prior).
My best advice is to avoid the following dates like the motherfucking plague:
1) the last week of December (Christmas-New Years Day)
2) Thanksgiving weekend
3) 4th of July
and to a lesser extent:
4) the summer season (but it's still manageable).
In my experience going in fall (September to first week of December except Thanksgiving weekend) is the best season to visit Orlando.
I've visited twice in July (both in the last week of the month), once in first week of May and once in first week of November and by a mile and a half November had the best weather, hotel prices and the least crowds I've experienced.
I hear January-February is good too but I can't personally vouch for that.
GasProblem
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I'll probably never have the chance to visit this, but can't wait to see how it's going to turn out. I'll just watch youtube walkthroughs and onrides and pretend I'm there.
darkwing-buck
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It's randomized now, you could end up in Hoth during the famous empire battle or in Kashyyyk during the Clone Wars. I've experienced it multiple times and almost every time it was pretty much different.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
If Star Wars doesn't make at least $2.5 billion worldwide I'll be really surprised. I'd go as far as saying it'll exceed $3 billion.
Mister_Ruck
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As someone who works at Disney (and DHS at that) just don't come during the obvious school holidays and you'll be fine as far as lines go. Sometimes park attendance is like sub-10k during early Fall versus 60k for Christmas week.
Alex_Mexico
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Not sure if you're serious but in case that you are I'll just say it:
You're absolutely delusional and positively disconnected from the real world. Star Wars Ep VII will make buttloads and buttloads of money but it's not making $3 billion, not even fucking close. That would mean it would have to make considerably more money than both Titanic and Avatar and the only film since 1997 to ever beat Titanic was Avatar.
Star Wars is huge, just not $3 billion (or $2B for that matter) big.
And let's get rid of the suspense: yes, it won't make it to $2 billion. It will, however, make more than $1B for sure putting it comfortably in the top 10 of the most successful movies ever and making it incredibly profitable for Disney.
PHOENIXZERO
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2.5 Billion would be just under what the entire prequel trilogy brought in combined...
Baron von Loathsome
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It's all CG instead of practical effects now and Rex is relegated to the queue, but otherwise it's still great. It has randomized scenes and pretty much all of them are a blast.
He should have tried to get away with Toby Juan.
Flow-Walker
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They do have room for expansion in DCA actually, but that's where the Marvel stuff is planned. This is going out behind Big Thunder in Disneyland, while area behind Tower of Terror in DCA is rumored to be reserved for a future Marvel section of that park sometime in the next decade.
Jme
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Edited OP to include link to the full presentation on Star Wars Land, upgraded one of the smaller pieces of concept art to a hi-res copy, and added in a 4th piece of concept art that was shown during the presentation but not released online (that I've found).
Also, SLIGHTLY on-topic:
Disney Visa card members can now order double-side designed Star Wars visa cards:
Card members will have exclusive access to a Star Wars Imperial Meet N Greet, featuring Darth Vader. Opening Fall 2015 in Disneyland, and Early 2016 in Disney World.
Card members can also save on select Star Wars merchandise purchases at Disney Stores and Disney Parks.
Also, SLIGHTLY on-topic:
Disney Visa card members can now order double-side designed Star Wars visa cards:
Card members will have exclusive access to a Star Wars Imperial Meet N Greet, featuring Darth Vader. Opening Fall 2015 in Disneyland, and Early 2016 in Disney World.
Card members can also save on select Star Wars merchandise purchases at Disney Stores and Disney Parks.
Jack Remington
Banned
Problem is it's done with early 00's level CG. It looks like an arcade game at this point. At least the original looked pretty close to the films.
many places
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omg awesomeEdited OP to include link to the full presentation on Star Wars Land, upgraded one of the smaller pieces of concept art to a hi-res copy, and added in a 4th piece of concept art that was shown during the presentation but not released online (that I've found).
Also, SLIGHTLY on-topic:
Disney Visa card members can now order double-side designed Star Wars visa cards:
Card members will have exclusive access to a Star Wars Imperial Meet N Greet, featuring Darth Vader. Opening Fall 2015 in Disneyland, and Early 2016 in Disney World.
Card members can also save on select Star Wars merchandise purchases at Disney Stores and Disney Parks.
VistraNorrez
Member
It looks great, your hyperbole is weak.
BattleMonkey
Member
Well there is real actors in many of the scenes, it's not all CG
No it looks pretty damn good. The ride redo was redone in 2013, the CG is quite recent and excellent.
Pagusas
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I dont know when you were last on it, but at Disney World it looks great. We were on it in 2012 and 2014, both times it was amazing.
Hopefully with the success of the new movies and these directors disregarding any canon introduced in the PT, maybe Disney will retool the ride again and replace PT stuff with NT stuff.
Jack Remington
Banned
I was on it last year. Kashyyyk was absolutely embarrassing.
Jailer of Hope
Member
Some prequel stuff might remain but they already announced episode 7 stuff will be added to the ride this year.
Jme
Member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZfOl8UtNqI
Kashyyyk starts ~0:50
Keep in mind this ride requires 3D glasses so the video looks blurry as a result.
I dunno... I'm not embarassed. I'd be embarassed if I said this looked like early 00's CGI
VistraNorrez
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I don't know why this has to be restated all the time, but they are not disregarding the PT at all. Star Tours is a fantasy ride not apart of the canon in anyway. And it kind of takes place "out of time" as they visit planets spanning all six episodes.They can do anything they want. There is no reason to get ride of any sequences, they can just keep adding new ones, which they are doing.
There is a great presentation from the 2011 D23 on the making of Star Tours - The Adventure Continues. It's really interesting that Disney initiated the project back in 1998, but ultimately waited until all the prequels finished so Disney could use all of Star Wars for the ride.
One of the most interesting things was how they worked with Lucas on it. They would come up with ideas and he would make further suggestions. The whole idea of the rebel spy on board snowballed from Disney suggesting this ride be the origin of how the Death Star plans were stolen. Lucas nixed that and suggested that there was simply a rebel spy on board, just some additional audio from a speaker of the rebel spy. Disney thought it would make the ride too predictable if it was the same audio every time, so they decided to use a picture of a ride guest. I think it's a great example of Lucas making a good suggestion and other creatives turning it into a great one.
I ride Star Tours a lot on every trip to Disney. I want to make sure I see every possible vignette when I go. The first time that took 10 tries (My wife was lucky in that she rode it 4 times ans saw everything). I think it took me 8 times on my second trip. Never once did I get bored. My ideal mix is Vader, Hoth, Leia, Naboo, but I really enjoy all of them. Really excited to see the new stuff for my trip at the end of the year.
Wait...Avengers I might could understand but someone thought Star Wars TFA wouldn't beat the BO numbers of a Fast&Furious movie?
HP_Wuvcraft
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Edited OP to include link to the full presentation on Star Wars Land, upgraded one of the smaller pieces of concept art to a hi-res copy, and added in a 4th piece of concept art that was shown during the presentation but not released online (that I've found).
Also, SLIGHTLY on-topic:
Disney Visa card members can now order double-side designed Star Wars visa cards:
Card members will have exclusive access to a Star Wars Imperial Meet N Greet, featuring Darth Vader. Opening Fall 2015 in Disneyland, and Early 2016 in Disney World.
Card members can also save on select Star Wars merchandise purchases at Disney Stores and Disney Parks.
So that's how my friend has a Yoda card.
Being stuck in Japan, I hope they do something at Disney Sea (probably where Star Wars would go, rather than DisneyLand Tokyo). They could get rid of everything else in the park and make it exclusively Star Wars for all I care
But DisneySea's tower of terror.
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